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Tucker Carlson is rumored to be exploring a third-party presidential bid for 2028 (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)

Tucker could derail the GOP in 2028

Heather Digby Parton

A third-party bid by the disaffected MAGA podcaster would be difficult — and beneficial to Democrats

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Michigan Democratic candidate for Senate Abdul El-Sayed and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) greet the crowd after El-Sayed spoke at The People V. The Powerful rally at the Detroit Opera House on July 18, 2026 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Sarah Rice/Getty Images)

Democrats' working‑class voter problem

Nicholas Jacobs - The Conversation

Progressives like Abdul El‑Sayed are still struggling to solve it

Cornell University is an exclusive Ivy League school in upstate New York. They have a new rule for their dorms: don't skin bears in communal kitchens. (TW Farlow / Getty Images)

Cornell's new rule: Don't butcher bears

CK Smith

The university updated its housing policies after students skinned and processed a black bear in a shared kitchen

All ICE agents will be required to wear body cameras by September 2026. But DHS can decide how and when to release them as its own discretion over any perceived transparency and public information. (Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images)

ICE bodycam releases with a catch

CK Smith

Officers to wear cameras by September, but ICE retains broad discretion over releasing serious-incident footage

In an overnight Senate vote, Todd Blanche barely became the Attorney General, despite contentious hearings over his personal history with Trump, knowledge of the job and previous mishandlings of cases like Jeffrey Epstein and ICE. (WIn McNamee / Getty Images)

Blanche confirmed overnight 50-49

CK Smith

Trump’s former lawyer was confirmed attorney general 50-49 as senators raced to leave Washington for August recess

Ariana Grande greets fans (Kevin Mazur/Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Universal Pictures)

The movie Ariana Grande fans need to see

Coleman Spilde

John Early’s film on the realities of eating disorders sparks a critical conversation

Bari Weiss, CBS News editor-in-chief, could soon be facing stiff competition from her former "60 Minutes" employees (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

The ghost of “60 Minutes”

Sophia Tesfaye

Former correspondents Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi may be teaming up to get the last word

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with Donald Trump at the White House, May 21, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

What's Trump doing with foreign aid?

Anna Maria Barry-Jester, Sharon Lerner - ProPublica

One proposal from the Trump administration suggested funding research on crime against Afrikaners in South Africa

U.S. President Donald Trump displays a rendering of his proposed $250 million White House ballroom as he meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House on October 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Trump: Ballroom is a "military center"

Alex Galbraith

The president came up with a new designation for his pet project after losing in D.C. court

(Courtesy of Apple TV)

Ted Lasso learns believing has limits

Melanie McFarland

In women's sports stories, persuading athletes to believe in themselves is only half the game

The Reflecting Pool on the National Mall, drained for repairs, near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on July 19, 2026. (Tom Brenner/Getty Images)

Trump's bottomless pool of corruption

Brian Karem

Corruption, bigotry, incompetence — pick one. When are we finally rid of this guy?

Rep. Max Miller, R-Ohio, has been accused of physical violence and child abuse by his ex-wife, Emily Moreno, daughter of GOP Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Miller tests GOP limit for terrible men

Amanda Marcotte

A wave of abuse scandals in Congress have started to worry even Republicans

President Donald Trump (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

The world is calling Trump’s bluff

Heather Digby Parton

The president’s empty threats and erratic diplomacy have underscored America’s unreliability

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche attends a news conference on November 19, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images))

Trump's AG pick takes aim at abortion

Shefali Luthra - The 19th

Todd Blanche has repeatedly expressed openness to restrictions on medication abortion

Former National Institutes of Health Director Anthony Fauci (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Fauci is an easy scapegoat

Troy Farah

The Trump admin can deflect from their public health failures — including Ebola and the cyclospora outbreak

Igby Rigney as Bret, Hayes Warner as Debbie Schaffer in "The Shards" (Ray Mickshaw/FX)

"The Shards" oozes '80s excess

Melanie McFarland

Ryan Murphy’s collab with the American Psycho author brings Gen X's wasted youth back from the grave

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks to reporters during a press conference ahead of a vote on the foreign aid package in Washington, DC on April 23, 2024. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

McConnell discharge revives rumors

Alex Galbraith

Mitch McConnell is heading home. The internet still wants to hear from him

Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. (Image Credit: NASA)

SpaceX’s rocket trashes the moon

Troy Farah

The collision is a reminder that we’re junking everything we touch

Boy George's latest single "We Will Dance Again" was created with artificial intelligence ( Ki Price/WireImage)

Boy George blows it all up for slop

Alex Galbraith

The singer should have at least had the decency to make his new agitprop single by hand

"Chef's Table" from Netflix (Netflix)

Why "Chef's Table" still matters

Francesca Giangiulio

A decade later, “Chef's Table” still shapes how I see food as culture and community

Perez Hilton (Ethan Miller / Getty Images)

The end of looking away on social media

Melanie McFarland

Perez Hilton's crisis went out live and unfiltered. That's not an accident anymore.

(Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Barrett-Jackson)

The Democratic male's midlife crisis

Jeremy Fassler

The Pod Bros, Chris Murphy and others are chasing the far left to stay young. At what cost?

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, who won Michigan's Democratic primary for the Senate, will face former GOP Rep. Mike Rogers in November (Finn Gomez/Getty Images)

El-Sayed's win causes GOP meltdown

Jason Kyle Howard

Republican efforts to turn the Democratic Senate nominee into a boogeyman betray their fear

Barbed wire lines a fence outside of the Delaney Hall Detention Facility , where ICE is housing detained immigrants, on August 4, 2026, in Newark, New Jersey. The demand for a shutdown continues  after El Salvadoran immigrant Edwin Lopez-Cornejo died  on August 1st while in custody at the facility.  He was the 22nd person to die in ICE custody this year. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Two more deaths at Delaney Hall

Bob Hennelly

Alleged lack of medical care contributed to the deaths, in addition to 22 deaths in ICE custody this year

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